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Captives Freed
The Ugandan army reports it liberated in December 374 people being held by the Lords
Resistance Army (LRA), killed 46 of the rebels, and took the surrender of eight more. [The
anti-government LRA rebels, with bases in nearby Sudan, kidnap children from their home
villages in the north of the country and turn them into soldiers, meanwhile sexually abusing
and mutilating many of them.] (New Vision, Internet, 12/31/03)
Child Victims of Cult-like Group
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an anti-government group in Northern Uganda,
kidnaps children from villages in the region, virtually enslaves them, and then throws out
the badly damaged who do not die in the service of leader Joseph Kony. He is a former
altar boy who reportedly has 60 wives, wears women‘s dresses, proclaims a connection with
the angels, and believes that God has chosen him to overthrow the Ugandan government
and make the Ten Commandments the law of the land.
A 14-year-old in a hospital in Gulu that cares for LRA victims told how he was ordered to
join others in killing, with clubs, another child who had disobeyed a random order not to eat
at 4pm. The children were told the order was a message from the angels.
Hospital patients injured by the LRA included a girl with a steel pin in her leg, one with
spinal damage who may not walk again, and a girl terribly disfigured when other children
were ordered to cut off her nose, ears, and lips as a warning to the Ugandan community not
to fight the rebels. One result of the LRA terror is that thousands of Ugandan children are
flooding into the towns to avoid kidnapping. (Hilary Andersson, BBC News, Internet, 7/5/03)
LRA forces in mid-June attacked Adjumani Catholic Parish and abducted 15 children from
the Redeemer Orphanage Centre. A previous attack on Adjumani took place in 1991.
(Patrick Alioni and Dennis Ojwee, New Vision, Internet, 6/19/03)
Children Rescued
Following hard fighting, government forces freed over 100 children who had been abducted
by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda. (Ali Mao, New Vision, Internet,
7/15/03)
LaRouche
Recruit’s “Suicide” Questioned
German police are reviewing their investigation of the death in March of Jeremiah Duggan, a
British student, and Jew, who had traveled to Germany for what he thought was an anti-war
conference run by the publication Nouveau Solidarité, only to discover that he had actually
joined the Schiller Institute, led by the anti-Semitic Lyndon LaRouche. The LaRouche
political organization is alleged to pressure young people to believe in a Jewish-American
conspiracy to take over the world.
Duggan died after reportedly running into the path of two vehicles. The police assumed it
was suicide, but a report requested by British authorities indicates that no autopsy was
performed and police took no official signed statements from witnesses, which were in any
case contradictory.
Duggan‘s family says that the 22-year-old was studying at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and that
when he learned of LaRouche‘s anti-Semitic background he declared he was Jewish and fled
the place he was staying with the group. But first, they say, he called his girlfriend in Paris
saying he was ―under too much pressure.‖ Then he called his mother, again expressing his
acute anxiety and wish to go home. As he was giving his location, the phone line was cut
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When Duggan‘s mother finally reached the facility where her son had been staying, and
before she learned of his death, she was told first that Nouveau Solidarité was a ―news
agency‖ and did not take responsibility for individual‘s actions. She was told in a call several
minutes later that ―Jeremiah had psychological problems.‖
The Duggan family lawyer says that the German authorities‘ investigation ―is totally
inadequate. Jeremiah Duggan died in very suspicious circumstances. These call for a full
and proper investigation,‖ the lawyer said. (Daniel Foggo, The Telegraph, 11/9/03)
Getting Campaign Money
The Wall Street Journal says a good reason to check ―no‖ on your tax return when it asks if
you want to contribute to the federal election campaigns is that ―perennial crackpot
candidate Lyndon Larouche will soon get a check for $840,000. That‘s more money than Al
Sharpton, Dennis Kucinich or Carol Mosley Braun — all of whom have at least the pretense
of being serious candidates — will get.‖ (Opinion, Wall Street Journal, Internet, 12/4/03)
Magnificat Meal Movement
Former Irish PM’s Nephew Joins Movement
Niall Haughey, the nephew of former Irish prime minister Charles Haughey, has given up his
business and home and moved to Australia to live with the Magnificat Meal Movement
(MMM). Sources say Haughey has handed over most of his money to MMM leader Debra
Burslem, and will now live simply, working the group‘s land, in Queensland. Burslem, who
claims she has visions of the Virgin Mary, owns property worth several million dollars.
Irish cult expert Mike Garde says the group ―brainwashes‖ members, adding that some have
sold their homes near the property and given 30 percent to Burslem, who tells them the
Virgin Mary wishes them to do so. It is said that Burslem owns four Mercedes cars and is a
director of at least 10 companies.
Niall Haughey‘s father says, ―I am not worried about him at all.‖ (Sunday Irish Independent,
Internet, 6/29/03)
Mujahedeen Khalk
Dissidents Called “Cult”
Nine members of the Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen Khalk have immolated
themselves in front of TV cameras as a protest against a recent raid on their Paris
headquarters by French police. A City University of New York professor who has written a
book entitled ―The Iranian Mujahedeen‖ says that charismatic leader Massoud Rajavi closely
controls members‘ behavior, ―who you sleep with, who you marry, who he sleeps with —
everything. They stopped being a mass movement with Marxist roots and became basically
a cult.‖
An Iranian National Council representative in London called the self-immolations the
desperate actions ―of people who are willing to put everything on the line to liberate their
countries.‖ He said that former members critical of the group are ―paid agents of the Iranian
intelligence ministry.‖
Former members say that the Mujahedeen Khalk grew into a hermetic society when it lost
support in Iran for siding with Iraq in its decade-long conflict against Iran. One former
member says that followers had no contact with the outside world. ―They can‘t listen to
news, read a newspaper, the Internet. During two years in Paris, I left the base just two
days.‖ (Karl Vick, Washington Post, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Internet, 6/29/03)